1/ Associative thinking---connecting concepts to form ideas, inventions, and artworks---is at the heart of creativity.

In our new @TrendsCognSci review, @yoed_kenett and I explore how associative thinking works in the creative mind 🧵 2/ One of the most influential theories of creativity is the associative theory of Mednick (1962). It posits that creative ideas arise from novel combination of existing ideas or concepts, facilitated by associative networks within our memory

1: Introducing AuDrA: An Automated Drawing Assessment platform for evaluating creativity!

AuDrA is a neural network trained to judge the creativity of drawings like a human.

The AuDrA model and the 13,000+ drawings used to train/test it are open access🧵
psyarxiv.com/t63dm/ 2: Creative thinking tasks, like drawing sketches, are often used to assess creativity. A common method is to have human raters judge each response. Yet this method is time-consuming and subjective, slowing research and limiting access for those without resources.